Toki Pona Script

Introduction

Toki Pona () is a
constructed language created by Sonja Elen Kisa.
This document proposes a script for Toki Pona following
the philosophy of the language.

Since the root vocabulary is only 118 words, my idea to map
each root word to one Unicode character appeared to be a feasible
task. And I thought that dingbats and symbols match the nature
of the language best.
And surely Unicode must be capable of providing all the necessary
symbols!

Unicode

To find nice looking glyphs for the root words of Tokipona in Unicode was
not always easy. Some of the glyphs I found are, therefore, present only in
very current versions of Unicode, and might not be displayed correctly by your
browser. However, all characters of the current mapping are in the BMP,
so there is at least a chance that some browsers do display at least
something. I will nevertheless include images in this document.

The Script

This lists the original root lexicon of Toki Pona, extended by the
character column and sometimes a comment about the character selection,
labelled 'glyph'. It is left otherwise unmodified. When the lexicon
contained comments about the design of the words, these are labelled 'idea'.

Searching for good symbols was a tedious task and there is surely room for
improvements. Therefore, I'd be grateful for suggestions and comments.